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16 Wire & Cable ASIA – May/June 2015
Industrynews
Wind power
Iberdrola Renovables Offshore Deutschland GmbH has
awarded a contract to Prysmian Group to supply and
install wind turbine inter-array cables for the Wikinger
offshore wind farm, located within the West of Adlergrund
cluster in the German Baltic Sea.
In May 2014 Prysmian Group was awarded a contract with
50Hertz Offshore GmbH to design, produce and install
multiple 220kV HVAC 3-core extruded submarine cable
systems between the planned offshore wind parks within
the West of Adlergrund cluster.
Under the Wikinger contract, Prysmian will design,
manufacture, install and test a total 81km of 33kV
submarine cables in different cross-sections to connect
the 70 wind turbines and an offshore substation that form
the 350MW wind farm.
Cables will be produced in Prysmian’s facility in Drammen,
Norway, and installation works are scheduled to be
completed by the end of 2016.
Iberdrola Renovables Offshore Deutschland GmbH –
Germany Website:
Prysmian Group – Italy Website:
Copper and cable
booming?
THE UAE ministry of economy’s latest report states that
copper exports contribute approximately $1 billon to
UAE’s trade surplus. It has been revealed that there is a
difference of just $5 million between volumes of copper
cable exports of the USA ($1.33 billion) and the UAE
($1.325 billion), taking the UAE to a global fifth position,
after the USA.
Participants at Wire and Cable Arabia 2015 acknowledged
the investment opportunities offered in the sector in the
UAE and wider region, despite a slowdown in other parts
of the world.
Satish Khanna, the general manager of Al Fajer
Information and Services, organisers of Wire and Cable
Arabia 2015, said: “The cable industry in the UAE is
competitive, mature, expenditure-driven and caters to
almost all sectors of the economy. It has gone through a
phase of rapid growth that has encouraged new players to
enter the sector.
“The key growth drivers of the UAE’s cable industry are
the booming infrastructure and utilities spending, telecom
liberalisation, demand for electricity, government
subsidies, and export opportunities.”
Mr Khanna explained: “The types of cables produced in
the UAE are energy cables, instrumentation cables, power
and control cables, industrial cables and communications
cables. Wire and Cable Arabia 2015 was able to connect
serious buyers with local manufacturers to accelerate
export processes.”